I constantly lose my shit. I just spend a lot of time looking for it and touching every surface of my (thankfully small) appartement. Sometimes I use my phone camera to point it at corners of my room so I can get a closer look but it’s like a game of where’s waldo to me. To try and lose my stuff less often I try to give every object a specific spot and I try to actually stick to it and put my objects where they belong but that doesn’t always happen.

The objects I lose the most often are my glasses (ironic) and my airpods case (this one’s a nightmare to find).

Edit : after reading the comments I just realized how incompetent I am haha, but I literally just can’t go a day without losing something. Maybe because I’m young, have a short attention span, and I tend to not care properly for my belongings.

I basically never lose anything. I'm both fairly meticulous at putting things in their proper place and have a pretty good memory in the weird circumstances where I can't/don't (probably because it so rarely happens).

The one exception to this might be paperwork, because it's just such a pain to file and organize.

I'm a big fan of organization and I dislike clutter. Keeping things organized and not accumulating a bunch of things you don't need is helpful (that said, I consider a reasonable amount of some purely sentimental/decorative items to be small "needs" in that they can make you happy and that's good for your mental health).

But for the most part, really, it just comes down to a place for everything and everything in its place.

Even if I do put everything in it's place, I never usually remember where that is. One time, I reached inside my fridge to grab something and set my phone in there for a second. Turns out I left it in there, and couldn't find my phone for a while.

No problem. Currently, I don’t use tiles so I don’t know.

I would love such an app that uses either tiles or Nano composites as mentioned in other comments. I would only ever really use it for my water bottle though. I lose it pretty often as I never remember where I set it down while moving throughout my day. Otherwise, like previous commenters, I’m pretty organized and wouldn’t need it for anything else. I feel like many blind people are pretty organized in general because it just makes things easier overall. Not true for everyone though

I tend to be pretty picky about how I sort and organize things. I tend to use a lot of boxes and containers etc which can be pretty useful. One thing I find handy, whether we're talking about laundry, groceries, spare parts, dishes, or tools etc is to always put things away in the same place! I can't stand when sighted people come over and ramdomly move stuff and put it away the way they think it should go. I have my own system and it works for me...until someone changes it up then it can be really confusing!

The solution is simple. Place items where they belong. Also using tiles could be useful, specially for important items.

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No, but I currently live with two senior citizens after getting myself deported from Thailand, so nothing really ever moves in this house. I'm sure once I adopt I'll be losing things every day. :)

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Been thinking about this quite a bit myself for obvious reasons, and my best suggestion would be look into ink based nano-composites. You can print out stickers just from any standard printer as long as you have the necessary special ink. You can then get scanners for them, and I think they have a range of about 50m. So when you lose something, you could just tell the device what you lost, and it'll scan the area about 50m radius looking for that specific sticker nano-composite than guide you to it.

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Some grocery stores use this technology now. Along with bar codes, every item within the store also has an ink based nano-composite on it. So you just grab what you want, walk out, and scanners installed at the door will detect everything in your cart and charge your credit card the appropriate amount. You don't have to see a cashier or scan the items yourself at a self serve check out. Just grab what you need, and walk out the door.